The Ruling on the Imported Meats Which Are in the Markets

Question :

What is the ruling on the meat which is in the markets that was slaughtered abroad, is it permissible to eat it or not?

Answer:

If the slaughterer of the animals or the birds is not from the People of the Scripture, such as the disbelievers of Russia and Bulgaria and those like them who are apostates and who reject religion, his slaughtered animals may not be eaten. It does not matter whether he mentioned the Name of Allah over it or not. Because the basic principle is permissibility of eating the slaughtered animals of the Muslims only, and the exception. from this is the meat slaughtered by the People of the Scripture, according to the evidence (in the Qur'an). If the one who slaughters it is from among the People of the Scripture, the Jews or the Christians, as long as his slaughter is by cutting the neck. or slitting the throat while it is alive and he mentions the Name of Allah over it, it may be eaten, in accordance with the Words of Allah, Most High:
"The food (slaughtered cattle, eatable animals) of the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) is lawful to you.

If he deliberately did not mention Allah's Name over it nor the name of any other, then there is a difference of opinion regarding the permissibility of eating it. But if he mentioned the name of another besides Allah, then it may not be eaten, and it is dead meat, according to the Words of Allah, Most High:
"Eat not (O believers) of that (meat) on which Allah's Name has not been pronounced (at the time of the slaughtering of the animal) for sure it is Fisą (a sin and disobedience of Allah).

If he shot it in the head with a gun or hit it with an electric shock for example, and it died from it, then it is considered an animal that died from a violent blow, even if he cuts its neck after that.

And Allah, Most High has forbidden this in His Words:
"Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al-Maitah (the dead animals -cattle-beast not slaughtered), blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which Allah's Name has not been mentioned while slaughtering (that which has been slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allah, or has been slaughtered for idols) and that which has been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow."

Unless it was slaughtered while it was still alive after being struck on the head in that case, it may be eaten, according to the Words of Allah, Most High:
"or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the goring of horns and that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal - unless you are able to slaughter it (before its death).

So Allah, Most Glorified has made an exception for that which is slaughtered when caught while still alive, because slaughtering has no effect on dead animals.

As for that which is strangled to death or given an electric shock until it dies, it may not be eaten, according to the agreement of the scholars. It does not matter whether the Name of Allah was mentioned over it when strangling it, or delivering the electric shock, or when eating it.

As for the saying of the Messenger of Allah:
"You mention Allah's Name and eat."

It was concerning the slaughtered animals of some people who had embraced Islam, they had only recently abandoned. disbelief, and it was not known whether or not they had mentioned Allah's Name over them. So he ordered the Muslims who doubted whether those people had mentioned. Allah's Name over their sacrifices to do what was required of them, which was to mention Allah's Name when eating it, and to consider that the command of those slaughterers to mention Allah's Name over the animal which was ordained upon the Muslims when slaughtering - was most likely carried out.